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Appendix B NAS Staff Progress with Responding to the Statement of Task
Appendix B NAS Staff Progress with Responding to the Statement of Task
Pages 11-20
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INITIATE EFFLUENT RELEASE AND METEOROLOGICAL DATA COLLECTION NAS staff considered multiple sources of information to obtain effluent release and meteorological data. Data collection efforts primarily focused on obtaining effluent release reports for the seven pilot facilities because it was 1 Withthe exception of the first activity, Appoint the Study Committee, which was carried out by NAS staff using the NAS process for committee appointments.
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The effluent report retrieval efforts that took place during the pilot planning study have resulted in the public access to over 100 additional effluent release and other related reports.4 Approximately 70 of these are Nuclear Fuel Services reports previously restricted from public access. The remaining reports were provided by three licensees in response to a request from NAS staff (Oyster Creek)
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For some radionuclides, including carbon-14, it may be possible to fill gaps in effluent release data by scaling to power production. METEOROLOGICAL DATA Although nuclear facilities collected meteorological data6 as frequently as every hour, only quarterly or semiannual joint frequency distributions are reported in the effluent release reports, and the data are not always readable primarily because of the small font size.
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NAS staff visited several pilot states11 and engaged in discussions with representatives of the state's cancer registries and vital statistics offices to better understand data availability and release criteria. The information collected by NAS staff from its visits with the state offices is summarized below in terms of data availability and completeness, linkages, and policies and mechanisms.
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Some state cancer registries geocode address information in-house whereas others contract with geocoding specialists. Cancer registries may have used different geocoding tools to geocode their data, leading to different match rates13 and level of positional accuracy of the geocoded data.
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Cancer registries and vital statistics offices will need to review the research proposal and protocol for the NAS pilot study before approving the release of information. Some states have multiple levels of protocol approvals; in general it would take 3-6 months for a protocol to be approved by the state IRB.
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in the Illinois birth certificates.15 NAS staff did not discuss with the Illinois vital statistics office representatives whether this barrier could be overcome. DATA LINKAGES To conduct the case-control study, birth records will be linked with cancer registration records to identify suitable cases and controls.
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• Representatives of the state cancer registries and vital statistics offices. • NAS staff research.
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The estimates at the census tract level are based on rolling 5-year data periods starting from 2005. Example variables in the ACS data include age, gender, race, family and relationships, income and benefits, health insurance, education, veteran status, disabilities, location of work and how people get to their office, and how much people pay for some essentials.
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